These days I have been writing the physics paper on rolling asymmetrical cylinders. It first seemed an impossible task due to our centre of mass approach, but in the end it still worked out. I learned quite a lot, such as Lagrangian (all thanks to Dax). The most daunting part of the whole thing looks to be presenting (or the typing out) the paper. Firstly, I’ve to learn this LaTEX language, which is really crazy. At first I was using a trial software (for typesetting in LaTEX), and it gives a very good mix of red, blue and black colours when I was typing, which are easily recognizable. But after searching the Internet for hours, I couldn’t find any crack to unlocking the full version. I have an older version, but sadly it doesn’t support pdf so I give up on it also.
As a result, I’ve to switch to WinEdt plus MikTEX, which proved to be more powerful. However the interface of WinEdt is so irritating; it gives at least 5 colours, dark brown, dark blue, dark green, black and purple, all of which look about the same after a while, and spoiling my already 800 degrees eyes. The red colour was assigned for spelling mistakes, which are far less important than formulae mistakes when writing a Physics paper. I still could not appreciate the usefulness of LaTEX, although it's widely popular in the scientific world (ask any science, maybe not bio or engineering graduates they would have used or heard of it).
